Hiker collapses and dies on rugged desert trail with no shade

A 64-year-old girl collapsed and died whilst mountain climbing on an uncovered and rugged desert trail in Texas, officers say.

The incident came about at roughly 2:45 p.m. on Monday afternoon when Big Bend National Park’s Communications Center won a decision inquiring for emergency help for a 64-year-old feminine who had collapsed and used to be unresponsive on the park’s Hot Springs Canyon Trail — a 3 mile trail that takes hikers via rugged desert and rocky cliffs above the Rio Grande.

“A team of Park Rangers and a U.S. Border Patrol Agent responded and reached the patient by 3:30 pm and immediately began CPR,” learn a commentary from Big bend National Park following the incident. “A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter was called in to provide emergency transport of the patient.”

All makes an attempt to restore the hiker, alternatively, had been unsuccessful.

“Big Bend National Park staff and our partners are saddened by this loss,” said Acting Deputy Superintendent Rick Gupman. “While we can’t conclude that weather was a factor in this incident, March reminds us that the beauty of spring often brings dangerously hot temperatures to Big Bend. Our entire Big Bend family extends our deep condolences to the hiker’s family and friends.”

Park officers warn that no shade or water alongside the trail the hiker used to be on can continuously make it bad to try within the warmth of the afternoon.

With roughly 581,000 guests in 2021, Big Bend National Park is the fifteenth greatest within the nationwide park machine at 1,252 sq. miles and used to be approved via Congress in 1935 to “preserve and protect a representative area of the Chihuahuan Desert along the Rio Grande.”